KtCallista

lplady wrote:Sadly lots of mommy's do it every day. You'll be fine. No choice to not be. ;)

As long as he keeps the cats out of our sandbox he can play here anytime.

lp

Oh i'm sure we will be fine. Arranging childcare on only a couple days notice was interesting. See, most single mommies have those details worked out already. Moved a doctor's too. Don't want to risk it triggering a preschool eliminating fever.

tennisplayer121

Sorry for such a delayed response. Things have been crazy. The paperwork required to get a leave of absence turns out to be way more than anyone had indicated. Things are still pretty crazy, but in a weird way. Without all the stuff filling up my day, I've been able to get a lot done, but it just seems like things are moving at a crazily slow pace.

To Kt... I wonder about that too. My lab wasn't exactly the cleanest, but I still have been experiencing problems at my parents' house. However, it seems like things aren't as exacerbated as normal, but I'm also able to take it easy when stuff starts going bad. So there are several variables that have been all changed, so I can't really determine a correlation and causation relationship validly.

KtCallista

tennisplayer121 wrote:Sorry for such a delayed response. Things have been crazy. The paperwork required to get a leave of absence turns out to be way more than anyone had indicated. Things are still pretty crazy, but in a weird way. Without all the stuff filling up my day, I've been able to get a lot done, but it just seems like things are moving at a crazily slow pace.

To Kt... I wonder about that too. My lab wasn't exactly the cleanest, but I still have been experiencing problems at my parents' house. However, it seems like things aren't as exacerbated as normal, but I'm also able to take it easy when stuff starts going bad. So there are several variables that have been all changed, so I can't really determine a correlation and causation relationship validly.

Thanks again to everyone for the kind words. They mean a lot.

LP

Paperwork has it's own time dimension separate from the reality we experience. It seems to only intersect our reality at completely random and indeterminate points.

I'm glad you are feeling some better and are able to take it easy when things get unpleasant.

Even though I'm not at the actual halfway point, it feels like we've reached the halfway of being a single parent.... only 2 more school days (no school tomorrow).

KtCallista

Tennis, glad to hear you are feeling a little better at least. We're thinking of you.

J5, nice pic.

EEEKKKK CATS!!!!!!!!!

//breaks out in hives//

lp

She is comfortable. She beat him at scrabble yesterday. She's had lots and lots of company - and has been enjoying it. They started packing up her apartment today. She's still in the hospital and supposed to be moving into the nursing home hospice facility. There's a space issue. She's video chatted with the kids twice. Orc took his ipad that he won and put skype on it and his laptop (that he left here) so every night while I make dinner they've been chatting around the hospital room (the only place in the area with wifi).

I guess you won't be marrying a cat anytime soon, hives would be a clear sign I expect.

I hope it stays running, this morning I clicked on chrome and it couldn't find the program. I ran scandisk while I was gone. By the time we got home it was on the login screen, so I have no idea if it found anything. Reinstalled Chrome (obviously) so we'll see.

j5

KtCallista wrote:I hope it stays running, this morning I clicked on chrome and it couldn't find the program. I ran scandisk while I was gone. By the time we got home it was on the login screen, so I have no idea if it found anything. Reinstalled Chrome (obviously) so we'll see.

KtCallista

I guess. I need to find a good second browser, firefox as ok, then it wasn't, so I switched to Opera, but it bogs down on the two things it needs to do because I can't do them in Chrome (mostly dealing with multiple login issues).

tennisplayer121

Well, the time for my rheumatologist appointment is finally almost here. Hopefully some answers will result. I've been "relaxing" (if you really want to call it that) at my parents' house the last 2 weeks. Hopefully I can make some stinkin' progress on all of these health roadblocks. I'm tired of feeling like my crazy and fast-paced life had bullet time activated on it.

Hope all is well with you guys. It seems like the LP thread isn't moving a ton (not that I'm surprised at all by this haha), but we should change that.

j5

tennisplayer121 wrote:Well, the time for my rheumatologist appointment is finally almost here. Hopefully some answers will result. I've been "relaxing" (if you really want to call it that) at my parents' house the last 2 weeks. Hopefully I can make some stinkin' progress on all of these health roadblocks. I'm tired of feeling like my crazy and fast-paced life had bullet time activated on it.

Hope all is well with you guys. It seems like the LP thread isn't moving a ton (not that I'm surprised at all by this haha), but we should change that.

LP

hope you get some answers. A buddy of mine has chronic fatigue and it took forever to diagnose/treat, but he's got it under control now.

KtCallista wrote:I can't do them in Chrome (mostly dealing with multiple login issues).

LP

not sure what problems you have with chrome, spill and maybe I can help.

tennisplayer121

j5 wrote:hope you get some answers. A buddy of mine has chronic fatigue and it took forever to diagnose/treat, but he's got it under control now.

Yeah. I have no idea what is going on, but whatever it is, it's severely affecting my joints, which in turn affects many other areas of my life, including sleep. That's caused things to compound even more, since chronic (pretty much pain induced) insomnia just leads to more craziness. My current docs were virtually worthless for ~5 months. I'm desperately hoping the rheum will figure things out. This problem has cost me a significantly large amount of money due to inability to fulfill obligations with grad. school.

j5 wrote:not sure what problems you have with chrome, spill and maybe I can help.

lp

I love chrome, it has been my "go to" browser for 3 years now. But I still find myself running into issues that force me back to firefox a little too frequently. As of lately, it's actually gotten a little buggy again, and that's across 3 different systems, so I'm not sure if something changed or what.

KtCallista

j5 wrote:not sure what problems you have with chrome, spill and maybe I can help.

lp

I don't have a chrome problem actually... I have a problem with Google/Blogger, in that my blog is associated with it's own google account, not my primary google account. Also Facebook is a snoop so I isolated them to my second browser, which currently is Opera (but has been FF) and Opera really doesn't like Facebook.

Tennis - I hope the doctors finds something, it all sounds so miserable. Having been forced to "sit down" for 1.5 years, I can commiserate with you.

I talked to a Prof/writer friend of mine and finally confessed that I envy her job (and writing) and she gave me some advice, turns out her husband does the professor version of what I've been doing since graduation, so I may have to corner him on campus to chat some time.... she recommended waiting on grad school though, might not be a bad idea.

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